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This is the mistake theory version of what's going on: racism, a term which is not that old, but which in the Civil Rights era had a broadly agreed-upon meaning
by samatman 4y ago
This is the mistake theory version of what's going on: racism, a term which is not that old, but which in the Civil Rights era had a broadly agreed-upon meaning, somehow became a term of art, by accident, and now sometimes people mean two things by it.
The conflict theory is that this conflation was deliberately promulgated to serve power. Then it would be, not an improper noun, but a weaponized ambiguity.
- googlryas 4y agoPromulgate whose power? The powers that be, or academic/"Twitter SJW" power? I'm not convinced that it is a particularly effective weapon, since most normal people would be confused and not convinced when someone posits that a black person saying "All white people must die" is not racist.